dioramas

Monday, December 22, 2008
Toys

60,000-Piece Lego Star Wars Hoth Diorama Features LEDs, Footprints

3:30AM Jack Loftus | Not only is this Lego Star Wars diorama of the ice world Hoth fun to look at, it’s got some gadgety goodness inside too. Oh, and footprints. Tons of tiny minifig footprints. More »
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Toys

The Force is Tiny (and Incredibly Detailed) With This Amazing Lego Microscale Diorama

4:40AM Jack Loftus | Lego microscale enthusiast RogueBantha has been busy. For the past year, he’s been putting the finishing touches on this incredible battle scene between the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, and over the weekend he placed the last brick. Now, Lego and Star Wars have been done before here at Gizmodo (the former being profiled dutifully by Jesus during his awesome trip), but the extra cool thing about this busy, incredibly detailed scene is that it’s done in 1:200 microscale. That means there’s tiny X-Wing’s making their strafing runs against tiny AT-AT’s; a bad arse monorail system; and even a massive transport ship—all captured using as few pieces as possible. More »
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